Nat Fleisher's #1 Rated Fighters (1958)
Heavyweight – Jack Johnson
Light Heavyweight – Charles Kid McCoy
Middleweight – Stanley Ketchel
Welterweight – Joe Walcott
Lightweight – Joe Gans
Featherweight – Terry McGovern
Bantamweight – George Dixon
Flyweight – Jimmy Wilde
I'd say the weirdest choice is "The Real McCoy". His career was one of legend however. He never won the Light Heavyweight title. In fact, he was a natural Middleweight and won the Middleweight title (although never defended it). However, he did happen to fight a lot of the top Heavyweights of his day. He defeated Joe Choynski, Gus Ruhlin and Peter Maher. He lost to Tom Sharkey and Jim Corbett, with the Corbett bout thought to being a fix. From my understanding, from that point on writers would question whether or not "the real McCoy" was showing up to fight.
I'd like to know more about the guy. I'd like to know why Fleisher rated him the greatest of a weight division he never did anything in... Actually, the one time he challenged for the LHW title, he was defeated handily. Very interesting...
Heavyweight – Jack Johnson
Light Heavyweight – Charles Kid McCoy
Middleweight – Stanley Ketchel
Welterweight – Joe Walcott
Lightweight – Joe Gans
Featherweight – Terry McGovern
Bantamweight – George Dixon
Flyweight – Jimmy Wilde
I'd say the weirdest choice is "The Real McCoy". His career was one of legend however. He never won the Light Heavyweight title. In fact, he was a natural Middleweight and won the Middleweight title (although never defended it). However, he did happen to fight a lot of the top Heavyweights of his day. He defeated Joe Choynski, Gus Ruhlin and Peter Maher. He lost to Tom Sharkey and Jim Corbett, with the Corbett bout thought to being a fix. From my understanding, from that point on writers would question whether or not "the real McCoy" was showing up to fight.
I'd like to know more about the guy. I'd like to know why Fleisher rated him the greatest of a weight division he never did anything in... Actually, the one time he challenged for the LHW title, he was defeated handily. Very interesting...
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